English Dictionary

bank

/bæŋk/

verb

(intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn. / (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank. / (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

I need to bank my paycheck.

意味（1）

(intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

意味（2）

(transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

意味（3）

(transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

to bank sand

意味（4）

(transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

意味（5）

(transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground

意味（6）

(transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.

Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?

意味（7）

(rail transport, UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley.